1: Limburger - Sounded Nice (Could be uncompressed)
2: Cheddar Sounded worse than Limburger
3: Gouda sounded OK
4: Brie Sounded Nice (Could be uncompressed)
5: Feta Sounded the worst of the lot.
2,3, and 4, were pretty similar to me. I don't know if I was imagining things or not. I tried not to put too much thought into it, but just give my impressions. I am an audio engineer, and not an audio snob. I want the best audio of course but if I can't hear a difference it's not biggie to me. I want of course to archive music with an uncompressed format of course. I encode all my MP3s of my music as LAME. I have to put most stuff up on Reverb nation at 160kbps due to size constraints, and I thought I heard a hit in quality over my 320kps files. They sounded more dull. Now that I think of it, I am exporting recent MP3s out of the Cubase project, rather than using WaveLab as I used to. Hmmmm. Maybe Cubase isn't doing LAME?
Chad Johnson

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